This article makes no mention of Linux moving to tablet PC's. To me this is where the PC market is moving in 2012. The personal computer in my opinion, will continue to fall out of favor for smaller more mobile touch screen devices and move more people to the cloud.

Look at all the tablet PC's they are now availabe with android?

After reading the article linux 2013, the article will be obsolete by 2013.

Ram wrote:You've got to be joking... its bad enough I have to keep cleaning my phone screen, I don't want to start doing that every 5 minutes on my Desktop, Laptop or Netbook.

And I thought I was the only one! I used to freak out at work if I came back to my desk and found someone had stuck a post-it note right in the middle of my monitor screen. I had to display a notice permanently by my computer saying if you must leave a post-it note on my screen please stick it on the surround, not on the surface of the screen itself.

I too cannot summon up any enthusiasm for tablets or, for that matter, mobile devices generally - apart from possessing a fairly basic mobile phone which I use purely for making and receiving phone calls and sending the odd text now and again. Sad I know, but there it is.

But then I suppose I am of the wrong generation to be excited by such things!

I'd offer to lend you Asus tablet to change your mind, but I like it too much. Tablets aren't good for everything, even the Transformer I have, with the keyboard attached, isn't much fun for large amounts of typing, but it does make NetBooks redundant. They are however, good for causal sitting-room web browsing, reading (though probably not for hours at a time), having something to hand around to show people pictures or film clips and the like.
Depending on what someone wants from a computer, then in some cases a tablet would be adequate. I regard mine as a pleasant addition to my collection.

Rhakios wrote:I'd offer to lend you Asus tablet to change your mind, but I like it too much.

or an iPad 2 would change their mind. I just got one for christmas. It's awesome and I'll admit, it's the motivation behind my post. I've been reading linuxformat for about a year and never understood why someone would want to use the cloud, but now I see the light.

In the future the only ones to touch a Desktop will be computer Geeks, IT workers and computer Science Majors; the masses will soon be leaving it behind. For most people, and for most activities, (social media, communications) and with the cloud offering storage and processing for music, photos and documents, a small portable device like the Ipad is the wave of the future.

Another point, why would poor developing nations want to adopt old bulky linux computers for the classroom, when they can get a slick cheap tablet complete with textbooks.

And now Google is entering the market and will be coming out with a $200 Google/Motorola Tablet in 6 months.

These developments are so not so good for the Linux Desktop, but on the bright side it's not good for windows either.